Dr. Jacqueline Ryan Vickery gave a presentation titled "Mobile Phones, a Girl’s Best Friend?: How the Mobile Phone Industry Legitimizes Surveillance, Commodifies Talk, and Genders Technology" at the Society for Cinema & Media Studies in Seattle, WA on March 20, 2014. The presentation examined how the mobile phone industry frames phones as solutions to problems, commodifies communication features like calling and texting, and gender norms around technology use to normalize and legitimize surveillance and data collection.

1. Mobile Phones, a Girl’s Best Friend?:
How the Mobile Phone Industry Legitimizes
Surveillance, Commodifies Talk, and Genders
Technology
Society for Cinema & Media Studies, Seattle, WA
March 20, 2014
Dr. Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Radio, Television, & Film
University of North Texas
jvickery.com
jacqueline.vickery@unt.edu
@JacVick

3. Domestication of
Technology

5. Surveillance

6. Method

7. 1. Phones as problem / provider as solution

8. 2. Commodification of Talk

9. 3. Gendering Talk

10. 4. Gendering Texting

11. 5. Policing & Regulating
Communication

12. 6. Normalization & Commodification of Surveillance

14. Gendering Data?

16. Mobile Phones, a Girl’s Best Friend?:
How the Mobile Phone Industry Legitimizes
Surveillance, Commodifies Talk, and Genders
Technology
Society for Cinema & Media Studies, Seattle, WA
March 20, 2014
Dr. Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Radio, Television, & Film
University of North Texas
jvickery.com
jacqueline.vickery@unt.edu
@JacVick